Reportedly inspired by a story Allen heard from his wife about a friend of a friend who endured a Ruth Madoff-esque experience, “Blue Jasmine” is very much a chronicle of a 1-Percenter’s shattering ...
Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. A number of new images from Woody Allen’s ...
As most audiences know, Woody Allen tends to operate in alternating modes of comedy and drama, rarely allowing the two extremes to intersect. Now in his late seventies, Allen is still most frequently ...
It’s obvious from “Blue Jasmine” that Woody Allen has been to Hell; what’s more, he imagines some of the neighborhoods there that he was spared from visiting. It’s a movie about pain and loss—and ...
What are we to make of Woody Allen in 2013? Since at least the mid-70s the poster-boy for neurotic cinema has been steadily ploughing his own cinematic furrow, releasing films that aren’t comfortable ...
Are you still kicking yourself for missing Cate Blanchett in "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Kennedy Center in 2009? Well, you're in luck: Her Blanche DuBois is in full, addled force in "Blue ...
With Cate Blanchett now a two-time Oscar winner, we got costume designer Suzy Benzinger to spill the secrets behind the actress's best looks in Blue Jasmine—one of which she likens to a "couture ...
In Woody Allen's latest movie, "Blue Jasmine," the iconic filmmaker smuggles a difficult, challenging drama under the guise of one of his trademark comedies – ironic and impeccably paced. Viewers ...
Though the movie may be currently overshadowed by decades old events that have no bearing on the film itself, Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine is one of his stronger late-period films, with a brilliant ...
Cate Blanchett defined elegance, matching her red lips to the red carpet, at the Los Angeles premiere of Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine on Wednesday. Cate Blanchett and Peter Sarsgaard smiled for the ...
Blue Jasmine is no Purple Rose of Cairo or like any of Woody Allen’s earlier, funnier stuff. It is somber and bitter, almost too much to enjoy. But since Allen is in the director’s chair, comedy ...
Mental Illness is something we now think of as a product of brain chemistry, not personality. But have we tilted almost too far in that direction? Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen’s powerful and enthralling ...